Bound is beautiful, monstrous, dizzying, thrilling and strange.

The best of NZ Herald Business for 2016: Exporting magic armour and pirate monkeys - inside the virtual world of game producers.

Siobhan Keogh gives Titanfall 2 a through working over, and likes what she sees.

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe made an appearance at the closing ceremony of the Rio Olympics yesterday, dressed as his country's biggest video game star.

Rumours of a new, slimmer model of PlayStation 4 have emerged, following the posting of images on UK auction site Gumtree.

Ubisoft's first forays into virtual reality gaming will all release before the end of 2016, the publisher announced last week at Gamescom.

No Man's Sky is a true sandbox game. Like actual real life space, it's overwhelming in scale, but endlessly intriguing.

They're attempting to push their graphic novel style to deliver their most impressive game yet, with engaging dialogue and impressive action sequences.

Few games let you pause, sit silently while surrounded by sunfish and seaweed, and meditate.

Sean Murray's "chill" space exploration game No Man's Sky has Playstation fans clamouring to become part of it.

PlayStation Neo will be revealed at an event in New York City on September 7, according to French gaming site Gameblog and Vice Gaming.

You probably don't know him, but Al Kahn is likely to have had an enormous influence on your life.

One city in New Zealand has more Pokemon per capita than any other.

Britney Spears, Justin Bieber and John Mayer all have one thing in common, they're addicted to Pokémon Go.

The Kiwi game development industry is now worth $89 million a year - up 13 per cent from the year before.

It did seem too good to be true: a version of Pokémon Go that brings JK Rowling's wizarding world to life in our drab Muggle surroundings.

Some Pokemon Go fans took to social media to mourn the loss of their digital friends.

Life Is Strange, the narrative adventure game from Square Enix and Dontnod Entertainment, is to become a live-action digital series.

John Hanke's digital start-up Niantic has delivered the phenomenon that is Pokemon Go.

What happens when David Attenborough comes across a Pokemon roaming free in the wilderness? All of the lols, apparently.

Pokémon Go may be taking the world by storm, but that doesn't mean it's resting on its laurels.

Spark has reported a 10 per cent surge in mobile data use in the past two weeks - all thanks to smartphone game.

A US Reddit user has just become the first reported player to catch 'em all after completing the North American Pokedéx.

She's best known for reading the news but this week, NZH Focus had Newstalk ZB's Niva Retimanu take on a new challenge, sitting down to play the popular video game Doom.

Niva and Sam jump into gaming by playing the widely known and popular game, DOOM!

Swedish professional skier Matilda Rapaport has passed away after spending the weekend in intensive care.

The latest gaming craze has lifted Nintendo's market value significantly to more than US$39 billion.

Pokemon Go, the location-based mobile game that has become a massive hit, began as an April Fool's joke.

Has Pokemon gone too far? A Twitter user has captured the chaos which ensued when a rare animated creature appeared in Central Park.

When Kiwi Tom Currie quit his job to become a full-time Pokemon hunter he had no idea it could turn out to be the best career move he has ever made.